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Republican governors triumphed in key races on Tuesday in the political heavyweight states of Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin, joining the partisan tide that gave Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
In races shaped by voters'...

Massachusetts voters sent a Republican back to the statehouse after an election night featuring razor-thin margins and a wave of Republican victories in governors' races across the United States.
Along with his newly elected Republican...

The first Texas nurse to contract Ebola, Nina Pham, left the Dallas hospital where she has been receiving treatment for the virus this week for a flight to a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland, officials said Thursday.
Pham, 26, is the...

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's approval rating in a recent poll from We Ask America finds his approval rating at 30.6 percent, well off the 46 percent of the vote he won last November. But would he be more popular if, ...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has formed a nonpartisan working group that will spend the next several months coming up with options to fund his proposed 30-year, $100 billion overhaul of Connecticut's transportation system. The Democrat said Tuesday his new...

Connecticut's hospitals are urging state lawmakers to replenish the cuts in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget, predicting they could lead to deep reductions in medical services and staff. Legislators have been peppered in recent days with emails from...

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed an executive order on Monday barring state spending on travel to Indiana and any other state enacting legislation that protects religious freedoms but ultimately discriminates against gays and others groups....

WASHINGTON Governors in nearly a half-dozen states want to cut state spending on colleges and universities to help close budget shortfalls, often sparking vehement opposition among state lawmakers of both parties. Republican governors in Arizona,...

Eighteen years, three governors and $567 million after a study was commissioned to come up with a way to improve public transportation in central Connecticut, a bus-only corridor is about to open, promising to overtake motorists sitting on traffic-clogged...

A nearly $300 million project widening Interstate 84 in Waterbury is about to begin. The Republican-American reports (http://bit.ly/1BLMXRM) that rebuilding the 2.7-mile stretch of highway that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called one of the most infamous...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed human services budget is moving through the legislative process, but not without complaints from lawmakers and advocates. The General Assembly's Human Services Committee on Tuesday voted to send the bill to the...

Legislative leaders, responding to complaints from municipal officials about the taking of property and worries about a loss of local control, have revamped a proposal by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy intended to boost economic development near transportation...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is nominating a former Cigna Corp. executive as Connecticut's newest insurance commissioner. The Democrat announced Friday that Katharine Wade of Simsbury will replace Thomas Leonardi, who resigned in December to work with a New York...

Just two years ago, Connecticut launched the centennial celebration of its state parks touting its more than 100 parks, beaches and forests that extend from Hammonasset Beach on Long Island Sound to the lush woodlands of the state's northwest corner. Now,...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is set to interview three candidates for the position of Connecticut's education commissioner. The three are Fran Rabinowitz, the interim superintendent for the Bridgeport Public Schools; Nate Quesnel (KWIH'-nehll), the East Hartford...

State election officials are widening an investigation into whether the state Democratic Party illegally spent money for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election. The State Elections Enforcement Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a request from...

Former Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords is urging Connecticut lawmakers to address the link between gun violence and domestic violence, saying dangerous people with guns are a threat to women. Critically wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, Giffords...

The Hamden mayor who led Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Sandy Hook Advisory Commission is leaving public office to take a job in the governor's administration. Scott Jackson said Tuesday he will resign as mayor on April 16. He is scheduled to begin his...

Former Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords is coming to Connecticut to help promote the latest gun control proposals offered since the Newtown school shootings, but there are questions about whether the legislation is needed given an existing law on the...

John S. Santa has been successful in the fuel oil and energy business, but his real passion is trying to reduce the population of non-violent offenders in the state's correctional system and to help those who are released into a society that turns its...